I got my swap partners package today! It was like Christmas. I almost fainted from all the cuteness. My partner Beth made me the nicest apron and matching oven mitt. I love the colors and patterns. She also made me a little bag/pin cushion that goes in my craft room. The flower part is the pin cushion with the rubber skid stuff under it so it can sit on the edge of my table and the bag can hang over the side. I love it! I also got a handmade card, some bath and body lotion and spray and some little treats. This was by far the best swap I have ever participated in!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Awesome swap!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tip Junkie's Trade Secrets Swap
Monday, October 5, 2009
Fun Fall Treats
Monday, August 24, 2009
My favorite thing!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
A question for my readers
I am trying to start a craft club with my spouses' group. I have been searching online for ideas but I'm not finding much. So I thought I would ask you! My plan is to have it once a month in the evening when the hubby's can watch the kiddies. There would be a hostess who would hopefully provide some snacks and drinks and of course, their home. Now, here's where things get tricky. I read one idea about everyone paying the hostess and the hostess gathering all the necessary materials. My other idea was that you send out the materials list ahead of time and everyone gets their own stuff and then you pool the big resources, like sewing machines or scissors. Which do you think would work out better? If anyone has any ideas to share I would love to hear them!
Friday, June 19, 2009
Cupcake burgers and cookie fries, oh my!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Hidy-ho neighbor!
I needed to make a card for our neighbors to thank them for watching over our house while we were on vacation. They even turned on our sprinklers since our yard was drying up and dying. Ya gotta love neighbors like that. So we got them a gift card and I whipped up a little card (fits in an A2 envelope). I thought I would share it with anyone else who might want a quick and simple card. Give it to your neighbor who just moved in or just for the heck of it :o)
Click on the house to download!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Party Giveaway!
I'm doing a giveaway! Check out Design Dazzle and leave a comment on her blog about the partyware you would like to win. You can win a $25 gift certificate and free shipping for anything in my shop! The gift certificate is good for 1 year. The contest closes May 28th at midnight (PST). Design Dazzle has some wonderful ideas for kids rooms, parties, decorating, etc. It's definitely one of my favorites for future party inspirtation!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
There's a party goin on round here...
I've been MIA for quite a while, but for good reason. I am starting a little business venture. I have been working for the last couple of weeks on party ware. I have been creating some themes for kids parties and baby showers that I plan to sell on etsy. I'm really excited about this project. It's pretty much all I think about now. I have a million ideas but for now I'm working on my first four themes and when those are complete, then I will open my etsy shop and see how it goes. If noone is interested, at least I enjoyed making the stuff. For now, I will leave you with a little sneak peak, see if you can figure out what two of the the themes might be!

Monday, March 30, 2009
A simple onesie
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Digi-scrapped birth announcement
Finally! After three weeks, I finally got my son's birth announcements done. The hubby is going to be picking up my prints today so I can make sure that they look OK. I really wanted to make my son's birth announcements this time since I knew I could do it cheaper than what I could buy them for online. I used Andrea Victoria's Mod Bebe Boy papers. I really wanted a picture where he was awake but unfortunately my camera was having issues with the shutter so it has been sent off to Nikon for repair. This was the best picture I had available (sniff, sniff).
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Easter goodies
I haven't officially started any Easter projects, please, that would require me to be on the ball. But I thought I would share the Easter projects from years past. There's also the post on the peeps jars and treat bags here.
I am alive!
Sorry for the looong delay. I'm still alive. I had my son 3 weeks ago and we've had my MIL and mom visiting. Now everyone is gone and it's life as usual. I'm still trying to get the hang of managing three kids with little sleep. I really hope to get some crafting done this week. I need to make a 1 month onesie for my son, I've registered for Jessica Sprague's photo editing class online and I bought some felt food patterns, magnetic printer sheets and sticker paper for the printer. I've got lots of things I want to make, now I just have to find the time to do it. Oh and I also had my one year blogiversary so I really want to do a giveaway, now I just have to figure out what to give.
Friday, February 27, 2009
An Owl Birthday Card
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Dog-gone cute cookies
I saw these dog cookies in last month's Parents magazine. They called them pooch pops since they baked them on sticks. They suggested using the sugar cookie dough that you can buy at the store and mixing some of it with cocoa to get the brown ears. I just made my own sugar cookie dough and mixed some of it in my mixer with some brown Wilton food gel. They were really easy. You use a heart shaped cookie cutter and cut out a heart from the brown cookie dough and the original cookie dough. Place the plain heart on the cookie sheet, cut the brown heart in half and place on each side of the plain heart. Press some mini chocolate chips into the plain heart and bake. The ears will bake into the head part. Then use some white icing to glue on some eyes and a nose using M&M's.
*On a side note, someone had asked me where to find the original orange candy corn this time of year. Our Super Target has the Jelly Belly brand of candy corn in their bulk candy section.
Friday, February 6, 2009
More cuteness
Robot Valentine
A cricut honeymoon
My cricut and I are on our 3rd or 4th honeymoon. I go through phases with my crafting. I get on a roll with a particular type of craft and then get bored with it and move on to another craft. So my poor cricut had been collecting dust. Well, I have been in love with my digital kits and was working on some valentines day projects and started wishing there was a way my cricut could cut out some of the images and save my poor hands from cutting them with scissors. I ended up finding a great tutorial for converting PNG files (digital images are usually saved this way) to SVG files so that I could import them into SCAL and cut them with my cricut. So since I have been working on some owl valentines, I decided to cut out Nancy Kubo's owl from her Little Owl digital kit. I was ecstatic when it worked! I have so many digi kits and now my possibilities are endless! I plan on cutting out a robot later today so I'll share pictures of him when I'm done.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Nuts for you valentine!
This is the valentine treat that I made last year for my sons' classes at Mom's Day Out. I stamped them using Papertrey's Punny Valentine stamp set. You can see Nichole's original directions here. This year I plan on doing robots for some little boys and owls for some little girls. Now I just have to get my booty in gear and get them done so I can get them in the mail on time :o)
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